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Perth Now
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Henry Golding was inspired by TV series Nine Perfect Strangers to explore wellness retreats
Henry Golding is "going to look into [doing]" wellness retreats because of TV show 'Nine Perfect Strangers'. The 38-year-old actor would avoid the structured programs that aim to improve a person's mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing if they contained the "shenanigans" the characters got up to in the Hulu thriller that sees nine guests meet up at a wellness retreat, set up by Masha (Nicole Kidman) in the Austrian Alps - with her hiding secrets. But the idea of getting respite in his "adult life" appealed to Henry because he was told to not "bother anybody with your troubles" growing up. The 'Another Simple Favor' star - whose alter ego on the show Peter looks to gain approval and decide what he wants in his life - explained to radio presenter Kent 'Smallzy' Small, 41, on the 'Smallzy's Surgery' podcast: "I mean, if a wellness retreat, sort of, included some of the shenanigans that these characters, sort of, get up to, I think I would stay away too. "But, you know, we've been, sort of, talking about the discussion of therapy and how advanced it's become and how part of the zeitgeist it is. "And it's normal now to, sort of, open up. And back, way back, growing up, I was, kind of, taught to be like, you know, don't bother anybody with your troubles. "It's very down, kept it all paddled up. And so this idea of going to a retreat later in my, sort of, adult life seems a little bit more, kind of - I'm curious about it now. "So after the show, I think I'll be looking into - he's [Mark Strong] been to a couple of things. "So, I'm going to look into it." Henry's on-screen dad is Mark Strong, 61, who plays a ruthless billionaire intelligence expert David, and Mark loved his experience of going to a wellness retreat that focused on "relaxation" and a "little bit of medical intervention" to determine how healthy the guests were. 'The King's Man' star said: "I went to one, which was relaxation, coupled with a little bit of medical intervention in order to see how healthy you were. And you ate well, slept well, and had these, sort of, timetable every day of things that you did, like hydrotherapy and shiatsu, and all of this. "There was no mental health examination involved in that. It was really medical and physical."
Daily Mail
29-04-2025
- Daily Mail
Guy Sebastian arrested at gunpoint after driving stolen car in Los Angeles that was taken from Ian Thorpe's Hollywood Hills house
Guy Sebastian has recalled the time he was held at gunpoint by multiple police officers in Los Angeles for suspicion of grand theft auto. The Australian singer, 43, recounted having a knee placed on his body while a gun pressed his face into 'wet concrete'. During an interview on Nova 's Smallzy's Surgery with Kent 'Smallzy' Small on Monday, Guy recounted his terrifying ordeal. The incident, which occurred in 2011 when Guy was living and working in the United States at age 29, was confirmed by his management to Sydney Morning Herald at the time. 'I was living at Ian Thorpe's house in LA. I was just renting it for a while,' the singer began. 'I parked my car there, literally in the driveway, and I came back and it was gone.' Guy told radio host Smallzy his car - 'bought on eBay ' - was illegally towed by a dodgy company and taken to an undisclosed location without telling him. The company was attempting to exploit a loophole in the law, which allowed them to sell impounded cars that wasn't claimed by the owner after three months. In the lengthy time it took him to track down his 'stolen' vehicle from the mystery tow company in the Van Nuys neighbourhood, Guy said he had diligently reported the 'theft' to local police. 'Police told me the car had been taken by a tow company. So I'm going from tow company to tow company, over three or four weeks,' Guy said. 'Eventually I went to the police for the third time, after I'd been to 20 or 30 tow companies. I said it's a needle in a haystack. So they marked it as stolen which alerted the tow company.' 'I go to pick it up and they charge me $4000USD. It's a scam that they do,' he explained. Guy had been renting Australian Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe's two-bedroom hideaway in the Hollywood Hills, located behind West Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard when his car was stolen. Upon picking up his car from the impound lot, Guy said he called police straight away to notify them that the car was no longer missing or stolen. After 45-minutes of being left on hold, Guy decided to drive to a local car wash while he waited to speak to police. 'I pick up this car. It's all damaged from the tow thing. I'm livid. I hop in this car and head down to the car wash because the sheriff is up the road,' he continued. 'I thought "Bugger it, I'll go there after I wash this car". Didn't think anything of it. One police car pulls up in the next wash bay. 'I'm still on the phone to the sheriff and I see another one pulls up. Next minute there's eight or nine cops with their guns drawn, screaming: "SHUT UP AND GET ON THE GROUND!"' 'I'm on Bluetooth in my car and one cop pulls the phone out and throws the phone, smashing it. It was like a movie,' Guy said, able to laugh about the incident now. Guy attempted to notify officers that it was a misunderstanding and that he had the correct paperwork on the front seat and was on hold to police, but they refused to let him talk. 'He actually had the gun pressed into my forehead. It was full on. I could feel the metal of the gun,' Guy said, as another officer apparently told him to 'relax'. 'I was telling them it's my car. They wouldn't hear it. They put me in cuffs, pushing my face into this wet concrete.' Guy said he was eventually let go after, his paperwork was checked and cleared, and said he understood why the police needed to act the way they did.
